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UK housebuilding
Housing developments axed as Tory planning reforms take effect
...rural areas....
March 21, 2024
Property sector
Duke of Westminster’s property group launches £900mn lending arm
...The decision to add lending to Grosvenor’s sprawling interests — which include rural estates, agriculture and overseas property — is part of a strategy to diversify beyond the vast London estate and boost...
March 23, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
UK agriculture
Limits placed on removal of land from food production in England
...The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it had implemented the cap following feedback from the farming community....
March 25, 2024
Food & Beverage
Plans to label UK homegrown food sparks ministerial row
...Business and trade secretary Kemi Badenoch has warned Steve Barclay, her counterpart at the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, that his plans will drive up food costs and risk upsetting Britain...
February 21, 2024
US manufacturing
Chinese-backed solar factory stirs suspicions in rural Ohio
...The development has helped drive the unemployment rate down to a record low of 2.7 per cent....
February 13, 2024
Europe Express
Farmers on the march Premium content
...The CAP and rural decline According to this European Commission background paper, there are about 10mn farms in the EU, 17mn people work regularly in agriculture, and the farming and food sectors combined...
February 17, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management North America
New models for the next age of fund management
Wednesday, 25 SeptemberNew York, NY, USA
Brexit
Brexit red tape costs Scottish salmon producers millions, says trade body
...“We fully recognise the importance of Scottish salmon to the UK economy and are committed to supporting the sector,” the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said....
March 28, 2024
News in-depthUK agriculture
‘It’s too wet’: UK food security at risk because of record rain, farmers warn
...In its early survey of this year’s harvest, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, an advisory body to farmers, found excessive rain had caused big declines in planting of crops such as winter...
April 13, 2024
Food & Beverage
Moves to ban lab-grown meat intensify in Republican US states
...In 2022, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released a five-year agricultural plan that included fostering lab-grown meat....
March 31, 2024
Merlin Entertainments PLC
How Britain’s biggest aquarium chain keeps its animal records under wraps
...The BBC’s 2018 report on Sea Life revealed that an inspector appointed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs had advised the aquarium to supply “the minimum information required”....
March 12, 2024
Strategic Petroleum Reserve USA
Reimagining the SPR
...The Department of Energy (DOE) and the CHIPS office at the Department of Commerce (DOE) both have “other transactions authority” — allowing the agencies to engage in all manners of creative contracts....
February 24, 2024
Special ReportFT Wealth: April
Investing through the eyes of a child
...Take, for example, pay-as-you-go solar power services for rural or low-income communities in developing countries....
April 12, 2024
Renewable energy
Wall Street turns to ‘solar grazing’ sheep in its push to go green
...Desri’s executive director of development Liz Peyton said that in cases where land had been used for agriculture prior to the construction of a solar site, “it can be a hard transition for local communities...
April 10, 2024
News in-depthAgricultural commodities
Investors plough record amounts into US farmland
...Family-owned and operated businesses account for 95 per cent of all US farms, according to the most recent data from the US Department of Agriculture....
February 20, 2024
Energy Source
Biden’s clean energy conundrums Premium content
...“It’s a catalytic project for Pataskala,” said Alexis Fitzsimmons, executive director of Grow Licking County, the local economic development organisation....
February 22, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Australia
‘Made in Australia’ drive aims to shift economy from ‘world’s quarry’ label
...it has tapped into huge funding programmes from the Department of Energy....
April 3, 2024
UK agriculture
UK farmers’ union accuses sugar producer of short-changing growers
...In a statement, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said there was “a well-established process in place to agree the sugar beet price . . . with government only acting as final arbitrator...
November 11, 2023
News in-depthBrexit
New Brexit border rules will hit UK supply chains, food industry warns
...The agriculture ministry of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia said the new border rules were “leading to challenges and more work for the relevant veterinary authorities”....
January 29, 2024
David Pilling
Why small is not beautiful when it comes to development
...Aubrey Hruby, a seasoned investor in Africa, advocates the intense use of technology to release agriculture from its subsistence stranglehold....
November 5, 2023
House & Home
How can we be better stewards of the land in 2024?
...It’s not an easy time to be a farmer — many are having to change how they do business due to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ agricultural transition plan, which sees a move away from...
January 5, 2024
The Big Read
Can Africa one day help feed the world’s growing population?
...The continent’s agriculture is generally inefficient; average yields from cereals are half those of India and a fifth of those of the US....
April 3, 2024
News in-depthBrexit
New UK border checks are ‘disaster waiting to happen’, warns flower industry
...The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said technology would reduce the costs of the new border and officials would seek to minimise disruptions when enforcing the so-called Border Target...
January 4, 2024
David Pilling
Why the SDGs are a bad idea
...You can see why the sustainable development goals, an extension of the millennium development goals — set in 2000 and of which mercifully there were only eight — came about....
December 31, 2023
Letter
Letter: Flawed recycling strategy gives UK rubbish results
...Plans by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs promote mixing up paper and card alongside other dry recyclables....
November 20, 2023
Martin Wolf
The future of ‘communist capitalism’ in China
...In a country of China’s size and level of development, it could have created chaos....
March 12, 2024

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